Squeezing Lime Into Your Beach Drink Could Give You An Ugly Skin Reaction

We already knew that while drinking in the sun is a popular summer tradition — and no doubt a fun one— it can put you at serious risk for getting a horrible sunburn. The culprit? Squeezing lime into your drink under the sun.

Symptoms of Lime Disease can be mild to severe and look pretty gross, if you ask us. They include redness, blistering, inflammation, tenderness, pain, and pigmentation most commonly affecting the legs, arms and hands. The redness and blistering usually takes two days to a week to fade, but you’ll be left with a brownish rash that could take months to go away.

To keep yourself from getting “Lime Disease” this summer, squeeze lime into your drinks before heading outside and avoid lime garnishes in your beach cocktails. It’s a small price to pay to keep from getting an ugly and painful rash.

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And if that’s not enough reason to take it easy on the Corona and limes, drinking in the sun can actually increase a person’s likelihood of developing melanoma skin cancer by 73 percent compared to people who don’t drink in the sun.

This is because the ethanol in alcohol is converted to acetaldehyde when it is processed by your metabolism and scientist believe that this process could cause the growth of carcinogenesis — the beginnings of skin cancer. Pair this with hours of relatively unprotected sun exposure, and you’ve got yourself a dermatologist’s worst nightmare.